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Recently I have begun to wonder about the lost notions of craft, moving beyond perceived borders. When I refer to borders, I speak of the ‘National Borders’. Those ubiquitous arbitrary lines drawn across maps somewhere in Europe, by a bunch of men who probably hadn’t ever been to the region, but recognised the geo-political necessity to draw these lines, in order to ensure that power remained within their control (rant over!). Were artisans moving between regions within Asi

Over the past year of engaging with the European cultural sector in Amsterdam, I have observed a pronounced institutional effort to confront and redress the racialised histories embedded within their collections. Museums appear keen to rethink their narratives, foregrounding the structural violence and exploitation that underpinned the accumulation of their holdings. At the Mauritshuis, for instance, exhibition texts now acknowledge that the institution’s wealth was built thr

Whose voices are centered when we speak about decoloniality in the cultural sector in the Netherlands, and whose voices are missing? Since the beginning of my studies in the Netherlands in 2024, this question still lingers. One of the first things I noticed when I arrived on Dutch shores as a recipient of the Nuffic scholarship in Cultural Heritage, was that Sri Lanka continues to sit very low on the totem pole when it comes to colonial heritage and its ties to the Netherlan